Investors





Altos Ventures is a leader in first-stage venture capital, dedicated to investing first in great teams and great ideas. Based in Silicon Valley, Altos Ventures focuses on leading first institutional financings in breakthrough software, systems and services technologies. Over nearly a decade, Altos partners have worked closely with promising entrepreneurs to build new ideas into great companies. The firm manages $150 million in capital and has attracted over $1 billion in later-stage financing for its companies. To date, one third of Altos-led companies have gone public or been acquired by public companies.



 



Peninsula invests in scalable, capital efficient, early-stage IT companies in the software, infrastructure, technology-enabled services, vertical applications and digital media sectors. Peninsula focuses on companies where there is unparalleled commitment, drive and passion by the entrepreneurs and then works hard alongside the entrepreneurs to make those companies successful. Having been in the business for nearly two decades, the Peninsula team understands the nature of building companies and believes that the entrepreneurial spirit is essential for the success of any early-stage company. Peninsula brings this spirit along with its capital, perspective and insight to help build the next generation of great companies.
    
 
  Stanford enrolls about 6,700 undergraduate and about 8,000 graduate students from the United States and around the world every year. The university is divided into a number of schools such as the Stanford Business School, Stanford Law School, Stanford School of Medicine, and Stanford School of Engineering. The university is in Silicon Valley, and its alumni have founded companies including Hewlett-Packard, Electronic Arts, Sun Microsystems, Nvidia, Yahoo!, Cisco Systems, Silicon Graphics, and Google.